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People urged by health chiefs to be tick aware this summer
Ticks are tiny spider-like creatures and are found in woodlands, parks and gardens. They are most prevalent in late spring, summer and autumn. PHE is asking the public to be mindful of getting bitten as we venture outdoors during the warmer climes.
PHE Head of Medical Entomology, Dr Jolyon Medlock, said: "Now is a good time to think about ticks and what actions to take to avoid the diseases they carry.
"The number one thing that people can do to stay safe from ticks is to carry out a tick check after spending time outdoors and remove ticks as soon as possible. If a tick is removed within 12 to 24 hours it will reduce the risk of being infected.
"As children are bitten mostly on the head, this is a very important area to check particularly behind the ears, at the hairline and on the neck. It is recommended that tweezers or a tick tool be used to remove ticks, as other methods may lead to infection."
Lyme disease is the most significant tick-borne infection in the UK, causing an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 cases per year. Often the only symptom of Lyme disease is a rash, which gradually spreads from the site of the tick bite. The rash can cover a large area and last for weeks if left untreated. Some patients may also have 'flu-like' symptoms.
Cases of Lyme disease are often acquired through recreational activities including camping, walking, hiking and mountain-biking, where tick exposure is more likely. Areas where the infection has been transmitted in the UK include popular holiday destinations such as Exmoor, the New Forest, the South Downs, parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire, Thetford Forest, the Lake District, the Yorkshire moors and the Scottish Highlands.
Despite case numbers tripling between 2001 and 2012, many people remain unfamiliar with ticks, and the associated disease risk and tick bite prevention measures.
PHE is working with local councils to raise tick awareness and the risks to health.

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Is it safe to install iOS 7 or should I wait?
This question was answered on September 20, 2013. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.
Apple generally releases an update to their mobile operating system (iOS) whenever they announce a new iPhone; the latest update is a big departure from previous updates.
The current update (iOS7) allows those with an older iPhone (4 or newer), iPad (2 or newer including iPad Mini) and iPod Touch (5th generation) to look and function like the new iPhone 5S and 5C.
Unlike past updates, iOS 7 is more than just a feature upgrade (and there are a bunch of them); it's a complete redesign.
Apple seems to be developing for devices with larger screens as they have incorporated lots of new swipe gestures that have long been used in the Android camp.
The original iOS design seemed to be based on being able to easily reach and tap any part of the screen with one hand, but with the introduction of the iPhone 5's longer screen some users with smaller hands found that was no longer the case.
In general, the safest way to play any major update for any device or operating system (from any company) is to let a few million others take it through its paces to uncover the inevitable issues that accompany any major update (remember the first generation of Siri and Apple Maps?).
If you examine the history of iOS releases, you will see a pattern of minor updates shortly after a major update.
When Apple released iOS 6 in late September of 2012 it quickly followed it up on November 1st with iOS 6.0.1 which mainly contained bug fixes.
The same held true with iOS 5 as 5.0.1 was released less than a month later because of some major battery issues.
Those that waited until the first bug fixes were released avoided the irritation of the unknown issues, with battery draining issues seemingly a common theme.
Anytime an update from any company changes the number before the decimal (6 to 7) it signifies a major update. If the numbers after the decimal change, it's typically a minor update or bug fix so it tends to be a more stable version.
The bigger issue with iOS 7 is that it substantially changes how things work, so if you aren't comfortable with change, you should hold off until you see how it works on someone else's device.
Another option if you have both an iPad and an iPhone is to only update one of the devices (preferably the one you use the least) to get familiar with the changes at your own pace.
Going back to iOS 6 if you don't like iOS 7 may be possible in some cases, but it's not a simple matter of flipping a switch, so don't count on that as an option.
If you are one of the millions that like to break the control Apple has over your device via jailbreaking, you will definitely want to hold off until the usual battle between Apple and the jailbreaking community settles down.
We're already hearing the usual complaints about battery life, security bugs and default privacy settings that need to be addressed, so if you wait a few weeks you'll be much more informed.
By the way, with this many new features, you can expect shortened battery life until you figure out which of the automatically activated features you don't need and you turn them off.
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At the order of Solomon, the elders of Israel and all the leaders of the tribes, the princes in the ancestral houses of the Israelites, came to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD'S covenant from the city of David (which is Zion).
All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival in the month of Ethanim (the seventh month).
When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark;
they carried the ark of the LORD and the meeting tent with all the sacred vessels that were in the tent. (The priests and Levites carried them.)
King Solomon and the entire community of Israel present for the occasion sacrificed before the ark sheep and oxen too many to number or count.
1 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place beneath the wings of the cherubim in the sanctuary, the holy of holies of the temple.
The cherubim had their wings spread out over the place of the ark, sheltering the ark and its poles from above.
The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from that part of the holy place adjoining the sanctuary; however, they could not be seen beyond. (They have remained there to this day.)
There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites at their departure from the land of Egypt.
When the priests left the holy place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD
so that the priests could no longer minister because of the cloud, since the LORD'S glory had filled the temple of the LORD.
Then Solomon said, "The LORD intends to dwell in the dark cloud;
I have truly built you a princely house, a dwelling where you may abide forever."
The king turned and greeted the whole community of Israel as they stood.
He said to them: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his own mouth made a promise to my father David and by his hand has brought it to fulfillment. It was he who said,
'Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of any tribe of Israel for the building of a temple to my honor; but I choose David to rule my people Israel.'
When my father David wished to build a temple to the honor of the LORD, the God of Israel,
the LORD said to him, 'In wishing to build a temple to my honor, you do well.
It will not be you, however, who will build the temple; but the son who will spring from you, he shall build the temple to my honor.'
And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise that he made: I have succeeded my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD foretold, and I have built this temple to honor the LORD, the God of Israel.
I have provided in it a place for the ark in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of the whole community of Israel, and stretching forth his hands toward heaven,
he said, "LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below; you keep your covenant of kindness with your servants who are faithful to you with their whole heart.
You have kept the promise you made to my father David, your servant. You who spoke that promise, have this day, by your own power, brought it to fulfillment.
Now, therefore, LORD, God of Israel, keep the further promise you made to my father David, your servant, saying, 'You shall always have someone from your line to sit before me on the throne of Israel, provided only that your descendants look to their conduct so that they live in my presence, as you have lived in my presence.'
Now, LORD, God of Israel, may this promise which you made to my father David, your servant, be confirmed.
"Can it indeed be that God dwells among men on earth? If the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this temple which I have built!
Look kindly on the prayer and petition of your servant, O LORD, my God, and listen to the cry of supplication which I, your servant, utter before you this day.
May your eyes watch night and day over this temple, the place where you have decreed you shall be honored; may you heed the prayer which I, your servant, offer in this place.
Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel which they offer in this place. Listen from your heavenly dwelling and grant pardon.
"If a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath sanctioned by a curse, when he comes and takes the oath before your altar in this temple,
listen in heaven; take action and pass judgment on your servants. Condemn the wicked and punish him for his conduct, but acquit the just and establish his innocence.
2 "If your people Israel sin against you and are defeated by an enemy, and if then they return to you, praise your name, pray to you, and entreat you in this temple,
listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave their fathers.
"If the sky is closed, so that there is no rain, because they have sinned against you and you afflict them, and if then they repent of their sin, and pray, and praise your name in this place,
listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your servant and of your people Israel, teaching them the right way to live and sending rain upon this land of yours which you have given to your people as their heritage.
"If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or a locust swarm, or devouring insects; if an enemy of your people besieges them in one of their cities; whatever plague or sickness there may be,
if then any one (of your entire people Israel) has remorse of conscience and offers some prayer or petition, stretching out his hands toward this temple,
listen from your heavenly dwelling place and forgive. You who alone know the hearts of all men, render to each one of them according to his conduct; knowing their hearts, so treat them
that they may fear you as long as they live on the land you gave our fathers.
"To the foreigner, likewise, who is not of your people Israel, but comes from a distant land to honor you
(since men will learn of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple,
listen from your heavenly dwelling. Do all that the foreigner asks of you, that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, may fear you as do your people Israel, and may acknowledge that this temple which I have built is dedicated to your honor.
"Whatever the direction in which you may send your people forth to war against their enemies, if they pray to you, O LORD, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built in your honor,
listen in heaven to their prayer and petition, and defend their cause.
"When they sin against you (for there is no man who does not sin), and in your anger against them you deliver them to the enemy, so that their captors deport them to a hostile land, far or near,
may they repent in the land of their captivity and be converted. If then they entreat you in the land of their captors and say, 'We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked';
if with their whole heart and soul they turn back to you in the land of the enemies who took them captive, pray to you toward the land you gave their fathers, the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built in your honor,
listen from your heavenly dwelling.
Forgive your people their sins and all the offenses they have committed against you, and grant them mercy before their captors, so that these will be merciful to them.
For they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of an iron furnace.
"Thus may your eyes be open to the petition of your servant and to the petition of your people Israel. Hear them whenever they call upon you,
because you have set them apart among all the peoples of the earth for your inheritance, as you declared through your servant Moses when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD."
When Solomon finished offering this entire prayer of petition to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands outstretched toward heaven.
He stood and blessed the whole community of Israel, saying in a loud voice:
"Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised. Not a single word has gone unfulfilled of the entire generous promise he made through his servant Moses.
May the LORD, our God, be with us as he was with our fathers and may he not forsake us nor cast us off.
May he draw our hearts to himself, that we may follow him in everything and keep the commands, statutes, and ordinances which he enjoined on our fathers.
May this prayer I have offered to the LORD, our God, be present to him day and night, that he may uphold the cause of his servant and of his people Israel as each day requires,
that all the peoples of the earth may know the LORD is God and there is no other.
You must be wholly devoted to the LORD, our God, observing his statutes and keeping his commandments, as on this day."
The king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. Thus the king and all the Israelites dedicated the temple of the LORD.
On that day the king consecrated the middle of the court facing the temple of the LORD; he offered there the holocausts, the cereal offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to hold these offerings.
On this occasion Solomon and all the Israelites, who had assembled in large numbers from Labo of Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt, celebrated the festival before the LORD, our God, for seven days.
On the eighth day he dismissed the people, who bade the king farewell and went to their homes, rejoicing and happy over all the blessings the LORD had given to his servant David and to his people Israel.


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Yami to Boushi to Hon no TabibitoSynopsisAzuma Hazuki and Azuma Hatsumi are sisters. One day, on Hatsumi's 16th birthday (why is it *always* 16?), she disappears into thin air while calling out Hazuki's name, even though Hatsumi is supposed to be mute. Thus began Hazuki's strange journey through different worlds in search of Hatsumi. ReviewThis would have been one great anime save for one thing. If only one can be bothered to sit down and watch it! But by THEM policy, we sit through bad anime so you don't have to! How's that for integrity? The premise of the story is promising and the eye-candy is ... well, sufficient for the first episode to keep viewers like me satisfied. Then it all started going downhill and downright weird. There are lots of females in the show and the only male is simply begging for a tutu - and an axe through the television. Oh wait! Make that his head. It's really a feat that the creators managed to make him so awful. And if you are not offended by lesbianism, let's get down to the review. The plot. What plot? The creators simply throw you in the middle of it all, then use one whole next episode to explain and recap the previous episode. It feels like you are one step (or episode) behind the show the whole time. Now, if this were a thriller a la Perfect Blue, this would be fine, but it's not! It's an anime based on a hentai game, so such gimmicks only serve to drag down the story and impede the flow. Perhaps the creators would have fared better if this anime were just outright hentai. As for the eye-candy, the scenery is great and the character designs are good. We are, after all, dealing with Studio Deen. But the action scenes, which are actually few and far in between, could use a little more work. Granted, this is not an action anime but they could take some lessons from the likes of MadHouse. There are far too many stock images, stills, speed lines, and light shows. The only saving grace of this anime is the treatment of the requisite not-so-kawaii mascot, Ken-chan, by Lilith (one of the main characters, if you *must* know). She's always treating him ill and flicking him to one side, which is precisely what I felt like doing myself. Then there's the irritating shrouded what-manner-of-creature-I-have-no-idea that always tries to blow things up. If there's a point to its existence, it has eluded me completely. The music is pretty nice and appropriate for the anime but nothing to shout about. "But wait! You haven't even talked about the plot and the characters in this review!" Well, yeah. That's because they aren't worth talking about! Never has an anime been this disappointing. This anime is best watched with your finger on the fast-forward button. Viewers who disagree with me may add more stars, provided that you've survived the show first. — Diane Tiu Recommended Audience: Teens and above. Lesbianism might offend some and there's implied incest and torture. Plenty of fan-service and minor violence. Version(s) Viewed: Pre-license digital source Review Status: Full (13/13) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito © 2003 ORBIT / Yamiyama Library Management Association |
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KATMANDU, Nepal – An American climber said he fell into a crevasse on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal but managed to crawl to his tent despite broken ribs and an arm before being rescued the next morning.
John All of Western Kentucky University said Thursday he thought he was going to die after falling some 70 feet into the crevasse with no hope of rescue.
It took him six hours to crawl out of the hole and another three hours to reach his tent and spent the night in pain before rescuers reached him the next morning, he said in an interview in a Katmandu hotel where he is recovering.
All and his research team had moved to Mount Himlung in north central Nepal because the Mount Everest area was closed last month after the death of 16 Sherpa guides in an avalanche. One of those Sherpa guides was from All's team. They were planning to climb Mount Lhotse, a sister peak of Everest. Climbers attempting to scale both the peaks share much of the route.
"I thought I was going to die, there was no way out. I was alone," All said describing his first thoughts after falling into the crevasse on Monday. "I landed on an ice ledge probably 3 feet wide which saved me from falling further into the crevasse."
He broke five ribs and an arm, dislocated his shoulders, suffered internal bleeding and bruised his face and knees.
He crawled out of the hole using his ice axe but because of his broken ribs and right arm he could only move very slowly. His teammates were in lower camps and would take two days to get to him.
Once he got out of the crevasse, he did not have a radio to call for help so he struggled his way back to the tent and barely made it inside. He texted for help on his satellite messenger. His friends responded and arranged for a helicopter rescue.
"Because of bad weather the helicopter could not reach me on that day, so I knew I had to spend the night by myself," he said adding the he spent hours bleeding and shivering. He suffered from frostbitten fingers.
The rescue helicopter landed in a flat area near the camp at the altitude of some 19,600 feet Tuesday. The pilot and another rescuer dragged the 240-pounds, 6-feet 5-inches-tall All to the helicopter on a sleeping pad and flew him to a hospital in Katmandu where he spent the night in intensive care. He said he checked out the next day despite protest from doctors who wanted to keep him for a week.
All, from Bowling Green, Kentucky, plans to stay at his hotel in Katmandu for a couple of weeks to recover before heading to Peru next month for another climbing trip. He is an experienced climber who scaled Mount Everest in 2010. An associate professor of geography at WKU, All and his team were collecting ice and snow samples to study the level of pollution and rate of glaciers melting.


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It's a muggy early August day in Northern Michigan at the height of the tourist season, when Johnathan Rand, author of the children's book series Michigan Chillers sets up shop at on the outskirts of Indian River.
The scene along North Straits Highway is idyllic, Queen Anne's lace and sunburned grasses fill vacant fields. Cattails rise from lowlands. Two miles north of town, a forest stands tall and dark and cool. But then, abruptly, a clearing opens in the woods, and travelers see that something might be amiss. Two large gray stone gargoyles forebodingly mark the entrance to a paved driveway that leads to a shop. Clearly this store sells something other than smoked fish, fresh pasties, fudge or Petoskey stones.
Campers, two vans covered with spooky symbols and scraggly writing, and half a dozen cars with license plates from all across the country fill the parking lot. Black silhouettes of tarantulas, bats, the grim reaper, and cemetery headstones line the front of a small building next to a warehouse. Above the front door, a sign says "CHILLERMANIA! WORLD HEADQUARTERS. JOHNATHAN RAND'S MICHIGAN CHILLERS."
Inside the store, under a ceiling covered with plastic bats hanging from elastic bands are dozens of shelves filled withhundreds of brightly colored paperback books. Crowds of kids are fingering the covers, turning pages as they sit in corners, or looking at CHILLERMANIA! Tshirts, sunglasses and backpacks. Some of the children are tugging on their parents' sleeves, begging for more books.
Suddenly, a hush descends. The shadow of a 6-foot-4 man fills the doorway. Author Johnathan Rand (a k a Chris Wright, his real name; a k a Chris Knight, his adult fiction penname) has arrived. He wears his signature long dark hair in a ponytail, has piercing blue eyes and sports unusually sculpted facial hair. He's buff—clearly, he's an exercise freak—and he's wearing khaki shorts, a buttondown short-sleeved shirt and Asics running shoes.
"There he is!" shouts a 10-year-old red-haired boy as he runs to Rand to shake his hand and ask him to sign a book. Another child—maybe 6 years old—is so overcome by Rand's presence he hides behind a bookcase. But the rest of the kids swarm Rand like a flock of sea gulls, jumping up and down and asking him for his autograph. He smiles. He asks each of them their names, where they're from, and where they're headed. He listens as the kids explain they have summer places nearby, they're on camping trips, or they're staying in local hotels. At one point, pen in hand, he says, "You know it's a true story! They're all true!" There's a pause. Then everybody laughs.
The shy kid? Rand doesn't miss a beat. After he signs all the other kids' books, he approaches the boy, introduces himself,and offers to give him his autograph. The parents stand back, watching. Some of the moms and dads look as starstruck as the kids. Rand is charming and handsome—in a slightly diabolical way. Clearly, it isn't just the kids that have crushes on him. They want Rand to sign their books, too.
Next to a corner decorated with fake tarantulas and an inflatable skeleton, a boy who has just had his book signed shrieks. A plastic bat dropped from the ceiling and landed on his head, wings flapping. Then it retracts back in to its place. Rand ducks behind the counter with a sheepish grin. His hand is on a button by the cash register. He's clearly delighted by allthis. And so are his fans.
Most of Johnathan Rand's earliest stories for children begin with a scary premise set somewhere in Michigan. His own story—also set in Michigan—begins with fly-fishing, roadkill, muskrat hairs, and a determination that has propelled him to a kind of success most authors never achieve.
Rand has written 68 books (using three different pen names): Michigan Chillers, American Chillers, the Freddie Fernortner First Grader series, The Adventure Club series, and several novels for adults. He won't say the exact amount he's made from his career as an author and speaker, but it's likely in the millions. BTW, he never studied writing in school and almost flunked out of college.
So how did Rand mastermind a plan to scare his way to success? We have to go back to a moment many years ago on the Au Sable River at 3 a.m.; Rand is 9, and he has only one name, Chris Wright, the name his parents gave him. He has just moved from Waterford, Michigan, to Grayling. He is fly-fishing and developing his overactive imagination as he casts by moonlight and makes out dark shapes in the forests that line the shore. This is when he begins to fall in love with the night woods in Northern Michigan and when he begins to create the palette to become a prolific writer of adventure stories and thrillers. Another factor: "I had a sister I tried to torment relentlessly. I scared her with snakes and spiders," Rand says.
"I'm very comfortable being alone by myself in the woods," Rand says. "As a result, my parents gave me many liberties a lot of kids my age wouldn't have. Then a neighbor taught me to tie flies when I was 9 and I started fly-fishing. I quickly found out the best time to fish was at night. I would routinely fish until 3 a.m." It was on these night adventures that he started writing scary stories in his head.
Rand's passion for fly-fishing and tying flies soon became more than a hobby. He started guiding people on fishing trips,and he started selling his flies to friends and neighbors and making a handsome profit. "I had so many orders, I would
take my fly-tying equipment into the library during school so I could meet my orders for spring. I earned a pile of money. Iwould often tie flies until midnight."
Even at a very young age, he seemed to have a keen business sense and looked for ways to cut corners to save cash. "I used my money sparingly. There were a lot of dead animals on the side of the road that I considered prize trophies for tying flies. I was always telling my mom and dad, 'Stop! I want that raccoon!' I would find different furs and feathers from birds …anything I could find. I looked at that as a resource that I didn't have to pay for. I was always cutting the hair off the neighbor's dog and tying flies with it."
He remembers a moment that crystallizes his skills for being frugal, independent, stubborn, and resourceful. "My parentsrefused to stop one time when I saw a dead muskrat by the side of the road. I really wanted that fur to tie my flies. So when we got home, I got on my dirt bike and rode back to town and picked up that dead muskrat and brought it back."
The business world and the natural world have always been a comfortable place for Rand. But school? Not so much. Rand admits that even though he was an avid reader, he didn't have great grades in elementary and high school. He went to Kirtland Community College in Roscommon to pursue Natural Resources Technology. It didn't go so well, and he decidedto drop out.
"A guy by the name of Don Fenton was one of my instructors," says Rand. "I took a form to him so I could withdraw with apassing grade. He took the form and he signed it. But he said, 'Whatever you do, kick ass.' I always remembered that. But I didn't know what it was going to be."
Rand landed a DJ job at a nearby radio station and started writing, producing and voicing commercials. His skills jettisonedhim to one of Northern Michigan's top radio stations, KHQ. But it was copywriting and production work he loved most. Eventually, Rand built a studio near Cheboygan where he created commercials that were used on radio stations all across the country.
Cut to the year 2000. Rand decides to try his hand at writing novels. "I was working on a book called Ferocity, which was about a giant muskie that eats people in Mullet Lake—kind of like a knock off of Jaws. The fictitious town is called Courville. I was trying to think of metaphors for the town—everything that was really great about Courville. I thought, Whatif it was a beverage … what would you call it if you put it in a bottle and sold it? And I thought, A Courville Cooler. One of the names I jotted down was a 'Michigan Chiller.'
"And I started thinking about that more and more," Rand continues. "I thought, You know, thatsounds like a series of kids books. Wouldn't that be fun? Scary stories in different cities around the state. So I wrote one."
His first Michigan Chiller was Mayhem on Mackinac Island, a story about two summer residents who are swallowed by an old tree and become surrounded by bizarre creatures. He asked his niece to read it. "She really liked it," says Rand. "I thought, Let's publish it and see what happens."
And this is when Rand used his stubborn independence and resourcefulness to create a whole new way to sell books. "I looked around at the publishing industry, and I didn't really like what I saw. I sent the idea to a couple of publishers, just to see what they thought about it. One of the major publishers sent a letter back, saying, 'It's a neat idea but kids aren'treading books like that anymore.' I thought, What's not being done? Where is there a need? So I printed the first book myself. I printed 5,000."
He sent free copies to hundreds of bookstores. "After I sent them, I started making phone calls. Literally less than five percent were interested in the book, though many Northern Michigan bookstores were supportive," Rand says.
He started thinking about how to get his books into the hands of tourists who come to the area. "People who visit Northern Michigan—they don't come here to go to a bookstore. They go to beaches. But they have to eat, they have to sleep, and they have to put gas into their car. So I thought, Okay, what if I could get books in restaurants, hotels and gas stations?"
He designed his own display case for his books, and he and his wife hit the road. "I wouldn't take no for an answer. The manager of, say, a motel, would say, 'Look, we don't sell books here.' I'd say 'That's exactly why I want to sell my books here. I don't have any competition.' Or they'd say, 'I don't have any money.' I'd say, 'I don't want it. I don't care. You just put the books on the desk in the lobby. If they don't sell, I'll take them away.' Well, within a week they started calling us, saying, 'We're out of books. The shelves are empty. Could you bring us more?' It just spiraled."
What he hoped would happen occurred almost immediately. "I knew that if these kids like them, they're going to take them back downstate and they're going to go into the bookstore and say, 'I need the next book in this series.' And that's exactly what happened."
After the quick, sweet success of his first book, Rand started writing more Michigan Chillers with similar themes set in other cities across the state: Terror Strikes Traverse City, Poltergeists of Petoskey, followed by Aliens Attack Alpena. A friend who was an elementary school teacher told Rand his books were appearing in her students' backpacks and on theirdesks in class. She also realized some kids who had never shown an interest in reading were enjoying his books. She asked him to speak at her school. He was a hit. Teachers started calling. Principals started calling. One speaking engagement led to the next, and a whole new and integral part of his book business was born.
"I went in, and I had a blast." Rand realized that he was having an important impact. He was getting kids who might not otherwise read to pick up a book and enjoy it. And keep reading, and buying more books.
Soon Rand realized his Michigan Chiller concept could be expanded to every state in the nation. He wrote the first American Chiller in December of 2001. He has now published 28 American Chillers (for third to sixth graders), and four more are due out this coming December. He has written 14 Michigan Chillers (also for third to sixth graders), 10 Freddie Fernortner books (for first and second graders), three Adventure Club Series (for third to sixth graders), six adult books, one book specifi cally for teenagers, and a few that are not part of a series. Rand says more than four million of hisbooks are in print.
These days, Rand spends his summers in Northern Michigan, writing, stopping by the CHILLERMANIA! store, and runningthe Author Quest kids writing camp. He has hired a national events coordinator who books him at speaking engagements in warmer climates during the winter.
"My first trip this fall is to Tennessee. I'll do 27 or 28 states this year" he says.
You can probably still find Rand fishing on a river at 3 a.m., thinking up wild ideas and scary stories. But this time, insteadof just the Au Sable, it's on rivers in California, Florida, or Arizona, when he's on his national tour. (He has, however, quit tying flies for good.)
And remember that major publisher who told Rand his books were a neat idea, but kids aren't reading books like that anymore? He got a letter recently from that very same publisher, offering to buy his series. Rand's answer?
"Let me think about it."
Mary Ellen Geist writes from Petoskey. email@example.com


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FELLSMERE, Fla. >>Forget peanuts. In the heart of Florida's citrus grove region, it's the oranges elephants are after.
At the newly opened National Elephant Center in Fellsmere, Fla., the pachyderms have discovered how to pluck the fruit from the trees with their trunks and pop it into their mouths.
Fresh Valencia oranges are not the only thing that makes the 200-acre center unique. It is also the only such site operated by the U.S. zoo community to house displaced elephants.
The center is open to two categories of the mammoth mammals: those sent for a limited stay by zoos that need to temporarily free up space for renovations or breeding; and elephants that need a permanent home when their previous institutional or private owners can no longer care for them.
The center's primary goal is to ensure the elephant's long-term survival. The animal is listed as endangered, or at high risk of extinction, in Asia, and vulnerable in Africa.
"There's an estimate that maybe 10 percent of the entire African elephant population was poached for ivory last year," John Lehnhardt said. "Give that 10 or 15 years, and there may be nothing left."
Currently residing at the center are four African elephants whose permanent home is Disney's Animal Kingdom, located about an hour north of the refuge.
Moyo, a 32-year-old female with only one tusk, was the first to discover and appreciate the oranges. She is accompanied by her calves, 10-year-old Tufani and 5-year-old Tsavo; and Thandi, a 33-year-old female affectionately known as the group's "auntie."
Tufani is starting to grow up and the older females are trying to move him out of the group, which typically only includes females and calves. Adult males live alone and the center is set up to help him in that rite of passage.
"It's a good place for transitioning for this young boy from his family group" while still allowing him to be close to them, Lehnhardt said. "They need to go out there and compete with other males. Learn the hierarchy."
The family spends most of its days roaming a 25-acre patch that includes a pond and muddy area.
Lehnhardt, who has worked with elephants for four decades at Disney and elsewhere, says he hopes eventually to take advantage of the site's full 225 acres, which he envisions with an education center and five barns to house up to a dozen elephants or more.
"A lot more elephants could live here and live here very well," he said.
The land was leased in September 2011 from a private citrus grove for 40 years at $1 a year. That allows for the bulk of funding, which comes mostly from roughly 70 zoos, to cover construction costs estimated at least $2.4 million, and operating costs that reach about $50,000 a month. Most of the operating expenses pay for supplemental food for the elephants, although the property provides roughly 100 different varieties of plants, almost all of which are edible. The elephants are foraging on them as they would in the wild.
The center's board of directors originally set their sights on a larger, 326-acre parcel in St. Lucie County, but the county wanted to impose limits on the number of elephants on site and require a pledge from the center that it would not use bull hooks on the animals. The hooks look like pokers and are used in some circuses to train and discipline elephants.
The center did not make that commitment to get the St. Lucie property but now has in Fellsmere. No bull hooks were seen on the property during a recent visit.
The elephants arrived in May — peak orange season — and Lehnhardt says Moyo was the first to discover the fruit. Smelling the trees, she tried to grab one that kept getting away from her. Finally, she sucked the orange with the end of her trunk and put it in her mouth.
"Then you saw her go, 'Oh my God,' and she started grabbing and shoving oranges down her mouth as fast as she could," Lehnhardt said. Moyo and her companions roamed from row to row, feeding on roughly 300 oranges each a day, until not a single one remained. Come next spring, they'll be at it again.
"We were surprised about that because generally citrus hasn't been something you feed elephants," said John Lehnhardt, the center's volunteer executive director. "We didn't think they would be all that excited, but they discovered how to pick the oranges themselves."
On a recent morning visit, the elephants were called from the habitat to the barn for a bath and medical checkup. Each elephant was brought in separately, through moving steel bars and gates resembling a maze. Jeff Bolling, the center's chief operations officer, held a bucket of food — some elephants were given bite-size Twizzlers — while using a clicker to reinforce their good behavior. All were fed pellet-sized bites of manufactured grain made specifically for elephants.
"Good. Steady. Good job," Bolling told Thandi as she turned to get her other side washed. Bolling has worked with her for 15 years at Disney and the two know each other well. She allowed Bolling to scratch her tongue and throw food in her mouth. "You're a good girl," he told her as her worn-out tusks knocked on the steel bars, creating a ringing sound that drowned out the sound of the clicker.
With the other elephants, particularly troublemaker Tufani, the caretakers distance themselves at trunk's length for safety, even though both Lenhhardt and Bolling were at Animal Kingdom in Orlando when he was born.
Disney will eventually decide whether to take the elephants back, leave them at the center indefinitely or break up the group and send them to other institutions. The situation has drawn some criticism from other animal welfare groups, which say the elephants shouldn't be moved frequently.
"That's really like a revolving door for the elephants," said Catherine Doyle, director of science, research and advocacy for the Performing Animal Welfare Society in northern California. The eight Asian and African elephants at her sanctuary are there indefinitely.
"If you are really trying to do what's right for an elephant, you would be providing a lifelong home for these animals and you would be trying to establish larger social groups that were stable and permanent."
Some advocates say that if the center starts offering lifelong care for the animals, it could fulfill a need in North America for a place where elephants' health can be monitored and the elderly and neglected properly cared for.
"They would be perfect candidates to retire there," said Nick Atwood, campaigns coordinator with Animal Rights Foundation of Florida.
The center's directors have considered also welcoming other threatened and endangered animals, such as rhinos. For now, though, the focus will remain on elephants.
"This is my retirement giveback to elephants," Lehnhardt said, a way to help a species that "was very kind to me over 37 years."
"They are going to have to carry me out in a box," Lehnhardt, 65, said, his voice cracking. "And that day will be great. It would have been very worth it."
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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
A gamester, the greater master he is in his art, the worse man he is.
"A good name is like precious ointment"; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
A liar is a bravo towards God and a coward towards men.
A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest restricted, and the youngest ruined by indulgence; but in the midst, some that are, as it were, forgotten, who many times, nevertheless, prove the best.
A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so often over and over again.
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
A man's nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him.
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
A steady hand in military affairs is more requisite than in peace, because an error committed in war may prove irremediable.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions und instructive experiments to light.
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned***either upon an art, or upon a man.
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so much of the human race, nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
All the operations of Nature are gradual.
All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great.
Ambition is like choler, which is a humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped, but if it be stopped, and cannot have its way, it becometh fiery, and thereby malign and venomous.
An angry man who suppresses his passions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks.
Anger makes dull men witty, but keeps them poor.
Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas methods carrying the show of a total do secure men, as if they were at furthest.
As atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty.
As those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and stone, so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the scriptures, and are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces.
As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
As to jest, there ought to be certain things privileged from it,—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, and man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 't is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtues shine and vice blush.
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches; for they despise them that despair of them; and none are worse when they come to them. Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Blushing is the livery of virtue.
Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself,… and you shall need no other comfort.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch.
But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak.
Certainly, if a man will but keep of an even hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of his receipts; and if he thinks to wax rich, but to the third part.
Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; the mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
Contempt putteth an edge upon anger more than the hurt itself.
Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he makes his wings shorter.
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds he will fall fast asleep.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Death***openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy.
Discourse ought to be as a field, without coming home to any man.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell truth, and to do it; therefore, it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers.
Do not overwork the mind any more than the body; do everything with moderation.
Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.
Even reproof, from authority ought to be grave, and not taunting.
Fame is like a river, that bareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid; but if persons of quality and judgment concur, then it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Fortune is like a market, where many times if you wait a little the price will fall.
Fortune is not content to do a man one ill turn.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God,—part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
Generally it is good to commit the beginning of all great actions to Argus with his hundred eyes, and the end to Briareus with his hundred hands—first to watch, and then to speed.
Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures: it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man.
God grant that we may contend with other churches as the vine with the olive, which of us shall bear the best fruit; but not as the brier with the thistle, which of us shall be most unprofitable.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
God has placed no limit to intellect.
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it.
Good books are true friends.
Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but error. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all the virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds.
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature, as the common saying is; but unskillfully and unmethodically directed, it will be, as it were, the ape of Nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.
He is truly well-bred who knows when to value and when to despise those national peculiarities, which are regarded by some with so much observance; a traveller of taste at once perceives that the wise are polite all the world over, but that fools are polite only at home.
He sleeps well who is not conscious that he sleeps ill.
He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure shall be sure to find matter for his humor, but none for his instruction.
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.
He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolors of death; but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace."
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.***Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
He that questioneth much shall learn much, and content much; but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh; for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall continually gather knowledge; but let his questions not be troublesome, for that is fit for a poser; and let him be sure to leave other men their turn to speak; nay, if there be any that would reign and take up all the time, let them find means to take them off, and bring others on,—as musicians used to do with those that dance too long galliards. If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.
He that travels into a country before he has some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Hope is a leaf-joy which may be beaten out to a great extension, like gold.
Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, impedimenta; for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory: of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
I knew a wise man who had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."
I know not how, but martial men are given to love. I think it is but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
I take all knowledge to be my province.
I will say positively and resolutely that is it impossible an elective monarchy should be so free and absolute as an hereditary.
If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters.
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
If a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
Imagination I understand to be the representation of an individual thought. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present.
In all other human gifts and passions, though they advance nature, yet they are subject to excess; but charity alone admits no excess. For so we see, by aspiring to be like God in power the angels transgressed and fell; by aspiring to be like God in knowledge man transgressed and fell; but by aspiring to be like God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever did or shall transgress. For unto the imitation we are called.
In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
In regard of our deliverance past, and our danger present and to come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his own ways.
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
In States, arms and learning have a concurrence or near sequence in time.
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise.
It cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce much to fortune's favor,—opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great.
It had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together in a few words than in that speech, "Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
It hath been well said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
It is a revered thing to see an ancient castle not in decay; how much more to behold an ancient family which have stood against the waves and weathers of time!
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.
It is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
It is said of untrue valor that some men's valors are in the eyes of them that look on.
It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.
It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.
It is the nature of extreme self-lovers as they will set an house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs.
It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.
It was prettily devised of Æsop, the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel, and said, "What a dust do I raise!" So are there some vain persons that, whatsoever goeth alone or moveth upon greater means, if they have never so little hand in it, they think it is they that carry it.
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.
It will be found a work of no small difficulty to dispossess a vice from the heart, where long possession begins to plead prescription.
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate.
Knowledge is power.
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
Let him be sure to leave other men their turn to speak.
Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large.
Lookers-on many times see more than gamesters.
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,—as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.
Mathematics are the most abstracted of knowledge.
Men believe that their reason governs their words; but it often happens the words have power to react on reason.
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom.
Men fear death, as children fear the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by frightful tales, so is the other. Groans, convulsions, weeping friends, and the like show death terrible; yet there is no passion so weak but conquers the fear of it, and therefore death is not such a terrible enemy. Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honor aspires to it, dread of shame prefers it, grief flies to it, and fear anticipates it.
Men in great places are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so that they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise; for the distance is all told, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves going back.
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness.
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength; of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter much less. Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and eat his own sweet bread, and to learn and labor truly to get his living, and carefully to expend the good things committed to his trust.
Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination.
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.
Mr. Bettenham said that virtuous men were like some herbs and spices, that give not out their sweet smell till they be broken or crushed.
My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action till they have passed the meridian of their years.
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand.
Nero was wont to say of his master, Seneca, that his style was like mortar without lime.
No man in effect doth accompany with others but he learneth, ere he is aware, some gesture, voice, or fashion.
No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Not to resolve is to resolve; and many times it breeds as many necessities, and engageth as far in some other sort, as to resolve.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and aid authors to read.
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt: when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones.
Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.
Providence for war is the best prevention of it.
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.***Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them.
Self-respect is, next to religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices.
Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner."
Socrates was pronounced by the Oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not.
Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and well chosen. I knew one was wont to say in scorn, "He must needs be a wise man, he speaks so much of himself." There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth.
States are great engines moving slowly.
Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed; and as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.
Surely the continual habit of dissimulation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and not greatly politic.
Suspicions among thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly to twilight; they are to be repressed, or, at least, well guarded, for they cloud the mind.
Talkers and futile persons are commonly vain and credulous withal, for he that talketh what he knoweth will also talk what he knoweth not; therefore set it down that a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral; and in this part it is good, that a man's face gives his tongue leave to speak; for the discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness, and betraying by how much it is many times more marked and believed than a man's words.
Thales was reputed to be one of the wise men who made answer to the question when a man should marry: "A young man not yet, an old man not at all."
That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express.
The best receipt—best to work and best to take—is the admonition of a friend.
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand.
The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man nor angels come into danger by it.
The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and His Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit.
The flood of grief decreaseth when it can swell no longer.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must need be cauterized in the end.
The greatest trust between man and man is trust of giving counsel.
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.
The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among human actions.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it.
The master of superstition is the people, and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order.
The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy. But then let a man take heed that the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and is two for one.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The only hope of science is genuine induction.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
The problem is, whether a man constantly and strongly believing that such a thing shall be, it don't help anything to the effecting of the thing.
The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses; for light gains come often, great gains now and then.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both the one and the other, unless we would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally excluded.
The strength of all sciences, which consisteth in their harmony, each supporting the other, is as the strength of the old man's fagot in the band; for were it not better for a man in a fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner?
The surest way to prevent seditious (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them; for if there be fuel prepared it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
The vine produces more grapes when it is young, but better grapes for wine when it is old, because its juices are more perfectly concocted.
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky, which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds are taken are more potent.
There is no affectation in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts.
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginning and outsets of things.
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity; like the motion of a bullet in the air, it flies so swift that it outruns the eye.
There is no way but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger,—how it troubles man's life; and the best time to do this is to look back upon anger when the fit is thoroughly over.
There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother.
There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great; and therefore it is a bridle also to great ones to keep within bounds.
There is the supreme and indissoluble consanguinity between men, of which the heathen poet saith, we are all His generation.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
There never was found in any age of the world, either philosopher or sect, or law or discipline, which did so highly exalt the public good as the Christian faith.
There never was found, in any age of the world, either religion or law that did so highly exalt the public good as the Bible.
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves; for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend but he enjoyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Those Spaniards in Mexico who were chased of the Indians tell us what to do with our goods in our extremity. They being to pass over a river in their flight, as many as cast away their gold swam over safe; but some, more covetous, keeping their gold, were either drowned with it, or overtaken and slain by the savages; you have received, now learn to give.
Those who want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Three means to fortify belief are experience, reason, and authority. Of these the more potent is authority; for belief upon reason or experience will stagger.
Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.
Time is the greatest of innovators.
To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. There be three parts of business—the preparation, the debate or examination, and the perfection; whereof, if you look for despatch, let the middle only be the work of many, and the first and last the work of few.
To grief there is a limit; not so to fear.
To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue.
Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn.
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights.
Tunes and airs have in themselves some affinity with the affections,—as merry tunes, doleful tunes, solemn tunes, tunes inclining men's minds to pity, warlike tunes,—so that it is no marvel if they alter the spirits, considering that tunes have a predisposition to the motion of the spirits.
Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.
Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
We cannot think too oft there is a never, never-sleeping Eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts.
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom; and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty, but in point of ability.
Were it not better for a man in a fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a rushlight into every dark corner.
When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight.
When any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened—which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure—men need to pray for fair weather.
When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Whereas they have sacrificed to themselves, they become sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune, whose wings they thought, by their self-wisdom, to have pinioned.
Who taught the parrot his "Welcome?" Who taught the raven in a drought to throw pebbles into a hollow tree where she espied water, that the water might rise so as she might come to it? Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast sea of air, and to find the way from a flower in a field to her hive? Who taught the ant to bite every grain of corn that she burieth in her hill, lest it should take root and grow?
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.
Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
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Gem from the Nine Network, and 7mate from the Seven Network both launched over the weekend, although not in that order.
Long before digital multichannelling got too interesting in Australia I pondered how the commercial networks would approach the tricky task of extending their brands to multiple channels. Channel 4 have done a great job naming their portfolio of channels under the "4" brand, while the UKTV group have adopted individual brands for each of their many channels.
These two approaches are currently playing out in Australia, with the Seven Network now extending its brand name and logo to 7two and 7mate, while Channel Nine has launched Go! and Gem. Personally I think the impending launch of Eleven is the best branding we've seen on a commercial multichannel yet, but that said I'm pretty hot for any branding Channel Ten comes up with.
As for this weekend Gem looks pretty and is a nice start, although perhaps something you might see on an inflight channel, 7mate on the other hand is less a brand and more of a punchline, so lets just say neither of them bowled me over.